Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2021

Previously I’ve written about how relational disconnection between NASA engineers and senior managers contributed to the fatal accidents of the space shuttles Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003. These benefits add up to a powerful advantage.

Self-aware 332

Self-aware Stress Environment Long-term 332

In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

For companies without clout, competitive advantage can be realized by keeping things simple, by cutting out the complexity cancer that is crippling so many enterprises. Each engineer has a pet feature they’d like included in Samsung phones. To do that, Samsung’s leaders must sacrifice the egos of their engineers.

Human Resources 183

Human Resources Restructuring Competitive Advantage Marketing Strategy 183

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

An Overview on the Importance of Change : While there is little debate that the successful implementation of change can create an extreme competitive advantage, it is not well understood that the lack of doing so can send a company (or an individual’s career) into a death spiral. Senior leadership must champion any new initiative.

Leadership 397

Leadership Competitive Advantage Due Diligence Short-term 397

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

In the new strategy paradigm, the focus of strategy is on how to create competitive advantage. Key to the new paradigm is to immediately direct attention and energy on the identification of strategic performance drivers and competitive advantages that can be delivered in days, weeks or months not years.

Strategic Planning 150

Strategic Planning Planning Competitive Advantage Long-term 150

HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Join us in this cover story celebration of Liz Ryan, a change driver of the decade, as she unveils the secrets to creating workplaces where authenticity, trust, and innovation thrive. It doesn’t work well for hiring managers, candidates, agency recruiters or the HR and TA people who administer the recruiting engine.

Ryan 59

Ryan Handbook Letter Competitive Advantage 59

Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Professors of business and corporate strategy (which includes me) research and lecture about the goal of long-term “sustained” competitive advantage, driven by grand plans that mesmerize and seduce the most seasoned leaders and leadership teams. This helps avoid the natural resistance to change that the current supplier may have.

Supply Chain 51

Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 51

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

Recently, Thomson-Reuters published its latest list of the Top 100 Global Innovators honoring the leading organizations and companies most responsible for sizeable, influential patents worldwide. First, many of the Top Innovators employ engineers in emerging countries such as India and China. Here are three main reasons why.

Engineering 9

Engineering Globalization Innovation Marketing 9

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 15, 2013

By contrast, the two books reviewed below offer highly specific ways of engaging culture to build more effective, productive, and innovative organizations. He similarly questions the routine use of layoffs, which he describes as “trading skills, experience, future capability, and competitive advantage for short-term cash.”

Open-book 240

Open-book Books Competitive Advantage Participative 240

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Successful innovators care about solving interesting and important problems — innovation is merely a byproduct. Focusing on innovating — as a worthy goal unto itself — tends to be born from self-centered motives: We need to protect ourselves from competitive forces. We need to ensure we have a growth engine.

Innovation 21

Innovation Succession Real Estate Competitive Advantage 21

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

When Google started they had the greatest focus, the simplest vision, and the least cluttered search engine. It will be interesting to see if the next round of Google innovation will be as successful as the beauty of their initial simplicity. My conclusions are drawn from 30 years of observational and experiential analysis.

Business Model 344

Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

It’s a methodology always in pursuit of unforeseen innovation, so reinventing itself might seem like the smart way forward. And I’d argue that in order to create sustained competitive advantage, businesses must be not just practitioners, but masters of the art.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Banking Agility Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

American companies and academic institutions possess unique competitive advantages in developing these global leaders. Let's examine the reasons why America possesses this important advantage: 1. America fosters risk-taking and innovation by entrepreneurs who become global leaders.

Competitive Advantage 14

Competitive Advantage Globalization Development Intellectual Capital 14

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 13, 2020

In the coming years, we will be seeing tremendous innovation in the field of building and running coworking rental marketplaces. Significant engineering goes behind a smart and intuitive search that performs well. There is no better time to launch your coworking space business. Happy Coworking! About the Author.

Business Model 66

Business Model Open-book Competitive Advantage Books 66

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In 1985, Peter Drucker made a hopeful case for an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and the creation of new businesses would more than compensate for job losses stemming from the retreat of manufacturing industries in the U.S. This “VUCA” environment rewards innovation but it also punishes failure more harshly.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Creativity Drucker Efficiency 8

Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

In order to survive over the long term and gain competitive advantage, companies must learn how to connect profoundly with the world around them -- not only with customers and stakeholders, but also with employees, local communities, politicians, and the environment itself."

Company 50

Company Competitive Advantage Open-book Long-term 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

We are facing a new world – one that calls for new approaches to generating consistent competitive advantage. The near-universal rush to cut costs and headcount is more likely distracting us from, rather than enabling, the real work of retooling our enterprises to be competitive in this new world. Suppressing Innovation.

Ohno 50

Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things. Ideas on their own accord are really quite useless.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

The Empowered Buisness

MARCH 4, 2014

ability to see the interrelationships between elements … such as, how decisions made in engineering impact other functions). Edwards Deming, management expert, the “principle of anticipation and innovation — driven by the producer, not the customer — is the ultimate competitive advantage.”.

Strategic Planning 131

Strategic Planning Content Covey Industry 131

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2014

International Harvester changed its name to Navistar International in 1986 when it sold its farm equipment business and entered the truck, diesel engine, and bus markets. The Miller heritage could not be lost, particularly because his founding products were innovative for their time. A monthly recurring subscription of $9.95

Brand 58

Brand Marketing Engineering Competitive Advantage 58

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. Your organization won't innovate productively unless some underlying factors are in good shape. A compelling case for innovation. Unless people understand why innovation is necessary, it always loses to core business or the performance engine in the battle for resources.

Critical Success Factor 15

Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

The innovation mindset isn’t just about product innovation. Some organizations have focused on product innovation for so long they don’t know how to innovate in any other areas. For example, in 2010, Microsoft —one of the world’s best product innovators for the last two decades — launched a social phone called Kin.

Innovation 10

Innovation Productivity Products Long-term 10

Strategy Driven

JUNE 15, 2015

John has a BS in Engineering and Computer Science from Loyola Marymount University, and is a proud California native. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. The Emerging Strategy of Innovative Service. OptifiNow was built from the ground up by simplifying the complex needs of customers.

Marketing 50

Marketing Discount Competitive Advantage Audience 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2015

It is the hub of the world’s energy industry, headquarters of medical innovation and entrepreneurial phenomena. Recurring themes include pioneer spirit, business innovation, community give-back, growth and vision. Today, I see Houston as a collection of communities, economic engines and entrepreneurial opportunities.

Entrepreneur 50

Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage Quality Books 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

Over the last 20 years, digital design and collaboration tools have fundamentally altered how firms approach innovation. The good news, of course, is that this expanded landscape creates an opportunity-rich environment for firms to innovate. The venture mode expands the flexibility and speed with which innovators act.

Innovation 8

Innovation Competitive Advantage Incentives Tools 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2015

Dale Neef is a technology advisor, and author of Digital Exhaust: What Everyone Should Know About Big Data, Digitization and Digitally Driven Innovation (FT Press). EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. It is a disruptive paradigm shift that most companies have yet to make. About the Author.

CIO 50

CIO Technology CRM Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Innovation has emerged as a key means by which the US can pull itself out of this lackluster economy. In the State of the Union, President Obama referred to China and India as new threats to America's position as the world's leading innovator. Startups — the engine of America's growth — will just go elsewhere.

Content 19

Content Innovation Technology Disruptive Innovation 19

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Surely this cheap, customer-centric, and data-driven innovation would impress the client. To make customers measurably happier, optimization mattered less than innovation. Their optimization strengths had become innovation weakness. A little dab of inventory data would enhance both customer expectations and process efficiencies.

Process 14

Process Competitive Advantage Outsourcing Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A recent McKinsey report found that while 84% of corporate executives think innovation is key to achieving growth objectives, only 6% are satisfied with the innovation performance of their firm. Even if executives try to prioritize it, innovation often gets crowded out by more “urgent” short-term pressures.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. Digital transformation, the industrial internet, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and a plethora of other innovations are fundamentally changing the nature of work.

Company 14

Company Insurance Engineering Software 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Companies need these practical hacktivists to dream up new ways to meet the needs of consumers who require customization on demand and to outpace competitors in an era when competitive advantage is often fleeting. Windham built an entire ad-hoc team at Stanley Black and Decker — product planners, executives, and engineers.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Google has asserted that this will adversely affect innovation, but those claims are premature. Corporations need to see privacy as another market ripe for innovation, one that can yield global profits, because adapting to EU concerns means extending your market reach across the world. Information & technology Innovation'

Innovation 8

Innovation Safe Harbor Compliance Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

ineffective innovation strategies. 5 Principles for Innovation in Emerging Markets. See More Videos > See More Videos > To date, Western digital firms have failed to capitalize on their perceived competitive advantage in China. failure to cope with extremely aggressive and determined local competitors.

Competitive Advantage 13

Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology Marketing 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

Therefore, the CIO''s role must shift from protecting and defending the status quo to embracing and extending new innovative capabilities. The visual, social, virtual, and mobile transformations that are already happening are creating a new golden era of technology-enabled innovation, and the CIO needs to be leading the charge.

CIO 9

CIO Innovation Technology Wireless 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

They invest in whatever it takes to innovate new solutions for customers. Incumbents, on the other hand, very often see the future as a threat: As leaders invested heavily in the status quo, innovation and disruption are not good for them. Turbulence erodes profitability, innovation marginalizes their current product offerings.

Engineering 10

Engineering Long-term Short-term Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

In fact, it reflects a keen understanding of both innovation and talent. The first thing to note is that Tesla is not truly giving away its secret sauce, the source of its competitive advantage. Access to the patents doesn’t ensure that a competitor can execute on an equally innovative product.

Tacit Knowledge 12

Tacit Knowledge Competitive Advantage PR Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2013

It changes the basis of market power for organizations because size no longer protects competitive advantage. Your brand is the exhaust created by the engine of your life. Goncalo have proven that "minority viewpoints" aid the quality of decision making by juries, by teams, and for the purpose of innovation.

Brand 8

Brand Engineering Competitive Advantage Career 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Maximize engineering productivity. Engineers love continuous delivery environments because they can immediately see how their work adds value to the organization. By August 2017, it took an average of 3.5

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8